格雷厄姆·格林(Graham Greene)是20世纪极负盛名的英国小说家和剧作家,是英国的一代文学大师,在西方文学界乃至世界文学界都占有很重要的位置。他的作品更是赢得了广泛的赞誉和读者的喜爱。《问题的核心》是他最有争议的一部宗教小说,然而它并不是以宣扬宗教教义为目的,而是通过对主人公斯考比堕落的分析,表现作者的人文主义关怀。 Graham Greene, a famous British novelist and dramatist in the 20th century, is a British master of literature and holds a very important position in the Western literary world as well as in the literary world. His work has won a wide range of praise and readers love. “The core of the problem” is one of his most controversial religious novels. However, it does not aim at propagating religious doctrines. Instead, it shows the author’s humanistic concern through the analysis of the depravity of his hero, Scarborough.